Thread: Books you read over and over?

A few that occupy a permanent place on my bookshelf (some get read once a year, others every few years)

The "Guns" series (Where the Hell are the Guns; Guns of Normandy; and Guns of Victory" - George Blackburn
Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
Rainbow Six - Clancy (Without Remorse used to be in the rotation)
The Wealthy Barber - Chilton
Confessions of a Street Addict - Cramer
Barbarians at the Gate - Burrough & Helgar
Buffet, Making of an American Capitalist - Lowenstein
Jack, Straight from the Gut - Welch
Clavell's Asian saga (Shogun et al.)

The count of Monte Cristo is a book I never get tired of.
Also all of Jules Vernes books.

Here are the ones that I can read multiple times and refer to often:

Ishmael (Daniel Quinn)
My Ishmael (Daniel Quinn)
The Story of B (Daniel Quinn)
The Wisom of the Native Americans (Edited by Kent Nerburn)
Conversations with God (Neale Walsch)
The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle)
The Secret (Rhonda Byrne)

Originally Posted by LX_Emergency

The sword of Truth series,

I have them all, and plan to re-read them sometime.
But I will never re-read Naked Empire. I don't know what got into Terry as he was writing it, but it is filled with page after page of preachy drivel. And the book has no point in the series, except moving some characters in position for the next book.
Not that there is anything wrong with that, but at least he could have made a decent story out of it instead of filling 600 ish pages with verbal pus.

For that matter, pillars of creation is not much better.
With some minor modifications he could have skipped both volumes and the series would have been better for it. I feel that after the first 5 volumes, he fell in the same trap as Robert Jordan: making thing overly complicated to the point where it is a chore just to keep the story going, and writing volumes for the sake of making the publisher happy.

Luckily he got his act back together with chainfire, although imo he never reached the quality of his first books again. The last 3 volumes are still great, but they become a bit predictable.

George RR Martin. I will difinitely re-read his books. Possible if I find myself with a week of holiday without the wife and kids, sitting un the summer shade outside, with a cool drink and my feet up on the table...

Originally Posted by Bruno

verbal pus.

I have only ever re-read a few and the only two that comes to mind I know I re-read at least once, Karate-Do My Way of Life by Gichin Finakoshi and A Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi

I have reread The Amber Room By Steve Berry, I've reread a book called holes that I was given as a kid a few times, To Kill A Mockingbird at least three times, some of the harry potters have been flicked through more than once. Probably a couple more but I forget.

Oddly enough, and I suspect any male over the age of maybe 25 won't get this and probably loads who are under, I've reread the 'twilight' series twice in 4 months. I have NEVER done that before.

I never used to reread books, but over the last 3 or 4 years, I've read so many over probably 10/11 years that I can reread them and enjoy them again.

Reading is fantastic.

Well I read and reread Shakespeare all the time.

Two non-fiction books captured my attention years ago to sufficiently capture my interest for successive readings. They are;
Adding a Dimension by Isaac Asimov and
The Universe and Dr. Einstein by Lincoln Barnett.

The two books of fiction that I have read more than once that come immediately to mind are;
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly and
The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway.

There may be a few more, but those are the ones I know right now.

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Originally Posted by gregs656

Oddly enough, and I suspect any male over the age of maybe 25 won't get this and probably loads who are under, I've reread the 'twilight' series twice in 4 months. I have NEVER done that before.

C'mon man. Twilight? SWMBO picked those up and got hooked, so I thought I'd see what all the hype was about. Stephanie Myer has got to be one of the worst writers I've ever attempted to read. It was so bad I couldn't get to my usual 100 page cutoff. I think I made it 10 pages. Even Stephen King said her writing was bad!

Someone I like to reach for if I'm in the mood for willy nilly action is Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt series. They start to get predictable of course, but Cussler has a way of drawing you in to the story and getting you excited. In Valhalla Rising, I was so excited in one scene that I yelled at the book (Damn it, get him! Shoot! YES!!!!). You can imagine my disgust at the movie based on his book.

I feel like I need to have more non-fiction books in my rotation, but there aren't many that have such information as I would need to re-read. I've found one, however, and damn if it hasn't shaken my beliefs: Amazon.com: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: John Perkins: Books

Please read Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. It's cheap, so why not?